materialize
to come into perceptible existence; appear; become actual or real; be realized or carried out: Our plans never materialized.
to assume material or bodily form; become corporeal: The ghost materialized before Hamlet.
to make physically perceptible; cause (a spirit or the like) to appear in bodily form.
to render materialistic.
Origin of materialize
1- Also especially British, ma·te·ri·al·ise .
Other words for materialize
Other words from materialize
- ma·te·ri·al·i·za·tion, noun
- ma·te·ri·al·iz·er, noun
- re·ma·te·ri·al·i·za·tion, noun
- re·ma·te·ri·al·ize, verb, re·ma·te·ri·al·ized, re·ma·te·ri·al·iz·ing.
- un·ma·te·ri·al·ized, adjective
Words Nearby materialize
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How to use materialize in a sentence
Not only are the run-ins taking longer to play out, but they’re also materializing earlier.
Certainly, history tells us that plenty of storylines will materialize — or be lost forever — depending on which section of 60 games happens to be the 60 that get played this year.
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The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View | Natalie Wolchover | July 2, 2020 | Quanta MagazineThe theory doesn’t address, for example, how “live” organisms and “evil” organisms managed to materialize from a primordial smoothie containing both right- and left-handed building blocks.
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This Oath Keeper was there for the protest, which had yet to materialize, and had a few friends joining him, he told me.
Backup dancers materialize, sparking a torrent of eye-catching choreography.
The Making of Kiesza: From Navy Sharpshooter to Beauty Queen to Pop Diva | Marlow Stern | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt took the beheading videos, and the deaths of two Americans, for that support to materialize.
But the unity deal failed to materialize after the Palestinian Authority declined to pay the salaries of Hamas civil servants.
Furthermore, by removing them from their post, you create an opportunity for insurgent black magic to materialize a car bomb.
Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq | Nathan Bradley Bethea | August 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd as fast as they could carry a galley of type from the dump, another galley would just materialize there.
Nine Men in Time | Noel Miller LoomisIt now looked as if the drink of milk might materialize, but alas for human expectations!
Gold-Seeking on the Dalton Trail | Arthur R. ThompsonWhat glorious rows of head-lines they must have seen as a last vision beautiful, never destined to materialize in printer's ink!
The Poison Belt | Arthur Conan DoyleSome of these foreign elements, like the -ize of materialize or the -able of breakable, are even productive to-day.
Language | Edward SapirYet the hotel did not materialize, and the "view" neither fed nor warmed nor clothed the patient proprietors of the desolate spot.
British Dictionary definitions for materialize
materialise
/ (məˈtɪərɪəˌlaɪz) /
(intr) to become fact; actually happen: our hopes never materialized
to invest or become invested with a physical shape or form
to cause (a spirit, as of a dead person) to appear in material form or (of a spirit) to appear in such form
(intr) to take shape; become tangible: after hours of discussion, the project finally began to materialize
physics to form (material particles) from energy, as in pair production
Derived forms of materialize
- materialization or materialisation, noun
- materializer or materialiser, noun
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